Ryde says data breach affected all customer accounts

Norwegian electric scooter company Ryde has suffered a data breach affecting all of its customer accounts, Yle reports. Ryde said an outside party gained access to its systems and copied some customer data, including phone numbers, email addresses and parts of payment card numbers. In some cases,…

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Fire service rescues 20 guests from Legoland roller coaster

Twenty guests were rescued from a roller coaster at the Legoland amusement park in Billund after it stopped about 10 metres above the ground, DR reported. The fire service was called at 5.19pm, and Trekantbrand finished helping everyone down shortly after 8pm, operations chief Morten Jeppesen tol…

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Lolland parents fear chaos as schools face closure

Parents are warning of chaos after Lolland Municipality’s proposed savings plan placed two schools at risk of closure, DR reports. The plan aims to cut around 200 million kroner from next year’s budget. Østofte Landsbyordning and Søllested Landsbyordning are proposed for closure, while two school…

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Catch-sorting rules bring Denmark’s mussel fishing to a halt

Newly enforced catch-sorting requirements have brought Danish mussel fishing to a standstill, Vildsund Blue director Poul Kærgaard told DR. The company says it cannot sort the large quantities of marine life caught alongside mussels by hand. On a typical day during the peak season, 500 tonnes of …

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Mikkeli closes free public toilets after repeated vandalism

The city of Mikkeli has closed its free public toilets at the market square after repeated vandalism, Yle reports. The toilets have been shut since early spring and are unlikely to reopen because their safe use could not be guaranteed. Market supervisor Kaija Ahonen said people urinated and defec…

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Chief physician rejects alcohol dementia label

There is no such thing as alcohol dementia in the healthcare system, Tormóður Stórá, chief physician at the Psychiatric Department of Landssjúkrahúsið, the national hospital, told KVF. He said people described as having alcohol dementia had been treated differently when they were placed in a sepa…

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Forssa threatens fines as historic workers district falls into disrepair

Forssa city authorities may impose fines of thousands of euros on property owners who fail to repair deteriorating buildings in Kalliomäki, Yle reports. Kalliomäki, formerly known as Ronttismäki, is a nationally significant built cultural environment and part of a national urban park. The distric…

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21 apply to lead Faroese insurance company LÍV

Twenty-one people have applied to become director of LÍV, the insurance company, Kringvarp Føroya (KVF) reports. Board chairman Árni Ellefsen said he hopes an agreement will be reached with one of the applicants later this month.

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Motorcyclist seriously injured in rear-end crash in Sipoo

A motorcyclist was seriously injured after hitting the back of a stationary passenger car on Massby Bridge in Sipoo on Wednesday evening, Yle reports. The first alert about the traffic accident came shortly before 6 p.m. An ambulance took the motorcyclist to hospital. The driver and three childre…

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Lappeenranta opens Finland’s first 11-person student shared home

Finland’s first known student housing unit of its kind will open in Lappeenranta, Yle reports. The Lappeenranta region student housing foundation LOAS has converted a house into a shared home for 11 students. The building is located in the Skinnarila district, just over a kilometre from LUT Unive…

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Joachim Posener resurfaces in Netflix documentary on Trustor affair

Joachim Posener, who was identified as the mastermind behind one of Sweden’s most widely reported financial scandals, has appeared publicly in a Netflix documentary nearly 30 years later, SVT reports. He was never convicted in the Trustor affair. In 1997, a group of financiers bought the investme…

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Manserock evolves as Eppu Normaali ends its live career

Eppu Normaali’s final concerts in Tampere mark the end of the band’s 50-year career, but manserock is not disappearing, Yle reports. Instead, the genre is changing shape as a new generation of musicians carries on its spirit. The band will perform for the last time at Ratina Stadium this weekend.…

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17-year-olds choose cars over buses in North Jutland

North Jutland’s public transport company expects to be short of 60 million kroner next year as fewer young people use buses, DR reports. The number of youth travel cards has fallen by around 12 per cent, with 17-year-olds increasingly choosing to drive instead. Bertel Mellergaard Sørensen travels…

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Kotka racing boat death under investigation as safety breaches remain rare

Finland’s Accident Investigation Centre is investigating a fatal circuit boat race accident in Kotka last weekend, Yle reports. Police said a driver approaching from behind ran over the boat in front after its driver made a sudden turn. The driver of the boat ahead died in the crash. Accidents ca…

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Secret letters left in abandoned care facility, Yle reports

Yle reports that confidential documents belonging to as many as dozens of people were left in an abandoned institution for people with intellectual disabilities in Lapland. Stacks of unopened letters were found on the floors of the deserted building, along with cabinets containing bank passbooks …

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Police suspect arson after Kemi support group’s clubhouse burns

Police suspect arson after a clubhouse used by a Kemi association that supports low income residents was destroyed by fire, Yle reports. The fire broke out at around 10pm on Tuesday in Kemi’s Karihaara district, and police are investigating it as aggravated criminal damage. The approximately 50 s…

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Tornator weighs restrictions as visitors damage Kaunisjärvi

Visitors have littered and damaged the surroundings of Kaunisjärvi so extensively that the landowner is considering restrictions on access and camping, Yle reports. The pond in Ilomantsi has become popular after social media videos filmed there were widely shared and viewed. Ulla Vartiainen, chai…

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Smukfest delivers vital income for Skanderborg sports clubs

Local sports clubs earn significant income by helping run Smukfest, Danish broadcaster DR reports. Eighteen associations from Skanderborg are involved in the festival, working in bars, food stands, as guides and with the clean-up. FC Skanderborg earns around one million Danish kroner from its wor…

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Private donors buy air conditioners for elderly residents in Aalborg care homes

Local residents have spent 25,000 kroner on six mobile air-conditioning units for two care homes in Hasseris near Aalborg, DR reports. The units are helping residents cope with the summer heat. Henrik Hummelgaard bought the equipment with a neighbour after seeing how badly the heat affected his 9…

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Wetteri cuts 79 person-years after change talks

Finnish car dealership company Wetteri Oy has completed its statutory change negotiations, Yle reports. The process will reduce staffing by 79 person-years and substantially alter the duties of 39 employees. The company had initially estimated that 95 person-years would need to be reduced. Up to …

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Soaring land rents threaten older apartment blocks with shutdowns

Soaring land rents and costly major renovations are putting older apartment blocks under pressure, with more housing companies expected to shut down when residents can no longer afford rising costs, Yle reports. The pressure is particularly severe in apartment suburbs built in the 1960s and 1970s…

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Police investigate cash requests in Espoo as suspected fraud

Yle reports that police in Western Uusimaa received several reports in July about men in Espoo, a city in southern Finland, who claimed to have lost their bank cards and asked passers-by to withdraw cash for them. The suspected offences took place in shopping centres. The adult men promised to re…

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Southern Europe drought could raise Finland’s olive oil prices

Exceptional heat and drought in southern Europe could reduce harvests and push up food prices in Finland this autumn, Yle reports. The greatest pressure is expected on olive oil, as well as fresh fruit and vegetables. Jyrki Niemi, a research professor at the Natural Resources Institute Finland, s…

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Jomshof language undermines SD government ambitions

Richard Jomshof calling political opponents “quislings,” meaning traitors, risks undermining the Sweden Democrats’ efforts to present themselves as fit to govern, according to an analysis by SVT political commentator Mats Knutson. Jomshof has accused Anders Lindberg, political editor-in-chief of …

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Police issue international alert for missing 15-year-old Freja

Southeast Jutland Police have expanded the search for 15-year-old Freja from Hedensted and issued an international alert, DR reports. Police are asking the public for help finding her. Freja was last seen at around 8am on Tuesday in the southern part of Hedensted, a town between Vejle and Horsens…

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Appeal threatens Oulu 33 million euro modular hospital plan

An appeal to Finland’s Market Court threatens the Pohjois-Pohjanmaa wellbeing services county’s 33 million euro modular hospital project in Oulu, Yle reports. The delay has forced the wellbeing services county to urgently seek alternative arrangements because indoor air problems in older hospital…

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Helsinki traffic police director files complaint over musician’s post

Helsinki police traffic enforcement director Dennis Pasterstein has filed a request for an investigation into a social media post that described him and his work in vulgar terms, Yle reports. Pasterstein wants authorities to determine whether the post’s author committed defamation. The post was w…

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More than 60% of Finland’s butterfly species have shifted ranges

More than 60 percent of the butterfly species known in Finland have changed their distribution ranges, Yle reported on Wednesday. Globally, one in 10 known butterfly species has shifted its range, according to a study published on Wednesday. The international study analysed more than 6,000 distri…

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Hunters mobilise to search for wild boar carcasses near Finland’s eastern border

Up to 100 volunteers will soon begin searching for dead wild boar in southeastern Finland near the eastern border, Yle reports. The aim is to find every carcass and determine whether the animals are infected with African swine fever. The hunters are receiving rapid training from experts at the Fi…

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Foreign Affairs Committee summons Faroese minister over defence meeting

The Faroese Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee summoned Foreign Minister Bárður á Steig Nielsen on Wednesday to explain his meeting with Danish Defence Minister Jeppe Bruus, Kringvarp Føroya reported. Bruus visited the Faroe Islands over the weekend and met with Nielsen. After the meeting, Br…

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